Ansible Training in San Francisco CA US

Topic Covered:

• Some prerequisites
• Getting set up on a Mac
• Getting set up on Linux
• Getting set up on Windows
• Testing with Vagrant
• Using SSH keys to connect to your target nodes

Topic Covered:

• Basic inventory example
• Hosts and groups

Topic Covered:

• A useful directory structure to keep your Ansible code organized
• Using git to manage your Ansible code
• A first look at a playbook to install and configure NTP time synchronization

Topic Covered:

• Connecting Ansible to your preferred cloud provider (we’ll use DigitalOcean)
• Creating a new server instance
• Dynamic inventory
• Dynamic inventory on Amazon AWS
• Mixing static and dynamic inventory

Topic Covered:

• Spec up our inventory and host groups
• Using roles
• Configure our database backend
• Configure our web server front-end
• Configure a replicated filesystem
• Configure centralized logging

Topic Covered:

• Deploying our app from SCM to our local Vagrant environment
• How we would deploy that code to production once tested by QA
• Updating our application
• How Ansible compares to alternatives such as Capistrano

Topic Covered:

• A brief intro to Docker
• The synergy of containerization and automation
• Using Ansible to build Docker containers
• MySQL containers
• Web application containers
• Data storage containers

Topic Covered:

• Unit, integration and functional testing
• Automating your testing using GitHub and Travis CI

Topic Covered:

• Real-world use case: Using Ansible to automate CM and application pipelines through continuous integration, release, deployment, and operations
• We’ll review your own environments and processes and evaluate how to best integrate Ansible’s configuration management for your own needs